A transhumanism book about your future
Technology guru and broadcaster Leo Laporte invites his old pals Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers, authors of the new future tech book Super You, on his show Triangulation to talk about living forever, nanobots in the brain, losing weight with an embedded “microchip”, nootropics, and growing breast implants with stem cells. By more »
The book “Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What it Means to Be Human” is now shipping! Order your copy in the US on Amazon.com – either the trade paperback version or the Kindle version. It was released for sale June 18, 2016 in the United States, and is available worldwide. Use more »
Fame inventor and artist Leonardo da Vinci produced some of the planet’s most recognized art. Yet, historians know he struggled with his work. Today, more than 500 years after his death, Marco Catani, professor at King’s College London suggests that he may have had Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder also more »
Almost 15 percent of American adults (37.5 million) that are age 18 and over report some trouble hearing. This makes hearing loss one of the most prevalent conditions that cause disability in the United States. Hearing loss can be genetic, or it can be caused by disease, trauma, medication, or more »
Soursop may be the most famous natural cancer-fighting fruit you have never come across. That is unless you have ties to the Caribbean or South America. Also known as guanabana and graviola, the spiny green fruit is well known in the Caribbean islands (especially Jamaicans, who refer to it by its Spanish name guanabana) more »
Strong Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to play a huge influence in code development in the next 10 to 20 years. I can’t imagine that we will ever completely eliminate the need for humans to learn code development in that time span, but a lot of it will be automated more »
According to Zoltan Istvan, a transhumanist activist who wrote the foreword for the book Super You, the Three Laws of Transhumanism are: A transhumanist must safeguard one’s own existence above all else. A transhumanist must strive to achieve omnipotence as expediently as possible—so long as one’s actions do not conflict with more »
Definition: Transhuman, transhumanism, transhumanist What is a Transhumanist? Transhumanism is a global intellectual and cultural movement which has the goal of transforming and revolutionizing the human experience and condition by creating, implementing and developing technologies accessible to anyone that will massively enhance human intelligence and physical capabilities. You might think of it as more »
Since writing the book Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What it Means to Be Human, (more info) one of the topics my co-authors and I get asked a lot about is: “What will humans look like in the future?” In some ways it is a tough question, because no one can more »
As I continue to process the takeaways from Fall 2016 MoNage (my new event series), I am even more convinced that the way “we” experience the Internet is changing, and the result of the shift in how communication evolves will be highly disruptive. This disruption will be fought by the companies being more »
New review just in from indie book reviewer/blogger Amanda Blackwood… Super You is a fascinating read. Have you ever thought of hooking yourself up to your partner’s central nervous system? (What?! That’s crazy pants.) How about bots in your blood stream? Or one day have your brain become an extension of the more »
